The Gift Relationship,9781565844032

The Gift Relationship

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9781565844032
ISBN10: 1565844033
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1997-11-01
Publisher(s): New Pr
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Summary

Richard M. Titmuss's The Gift Relationship has long been acknowledged as one of the classic texts on social policy. A seemingly straightforward comparative study of blood donating in the United States and Britain, the book elegantly raises profound economic, political, and philosophical questions. Titmuss contrasts the British system of reliance on voluntary donors to the American one in which the blood supply is largely in the hands of for-profit enterprises and shows how a nonmarket system based on altruism is more effective than one that treats human blood as another commodity.

Table of Contents

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Part I The gift relationship revisited 3(54)
Chapter 1 Introduction to the new edition
3(12)
Ann Oakley
John Ashton
Chapter 2 AIDS and the gift relationship in the UK
15(26)
Virginia Berridge
Chapter 3 Transfusion medicine towards the millennium
41(16)
Vanessa Martlew
Part II The gift relationship: from human blood to social policy 57(262)
Original edition by Richard M. Titmuss (1970)
Chapter 4 Introduction: human blood and social policy
57(4)
Chapter 5 The transfusion of blood
61(18)
Chapter 6 The demand for blood in England and Wales and the United States
79(11)
Chapter 7 The supply of blood in England and Wales and the United States
90(33)
Chapter 8 The gift
123(23)
Chapter 9 The characteristics of blood donors in the United States
146(32)
Chapter 10 The characteristics of blood donors in England and Wales
178(22)
Chapter 11 Is the gift a good one?
200(19)
Chapter 12 Blood and the law of the marketplace
219(17)
Chapter 13 Blood donors in the former Soviet Union and other countries
236(16)
Chapter 14 A study of blood donor motivation in South Africa
252(8)
Chapter 15 Economic man: social man
260(16)
Chapter 16 Who is my stranger?
276(29)
Chapter 17 The right to give
305(14)
Part III The gift relationship: a new beginning 319(21)
Chapter 18 A mother's gift: the milk of human kindness
319(14)
Gillian Weaver
A. Susan Williams
Chapter 19 Afterword
333(7)
Julian Le Grand
Bibliography 340(6)
Index 346

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